{"product_id":"the-gallery-isbn-9781590170809","title":"The Gallery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war.\" —John Dos Passos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Horne Burns brought \u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e back from World War II, and on publication  in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death  at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures  the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in occupied Naples in 1944, \u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e takes its name from the Galleria Umberto,  a bombed-out arcade where everybody in town comes together in pursuit of food, drink,  sex, money, and oblivion. A daring and enduring novel—one of the first to look directly  at gay life in the military—\u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e poignantly conveys the mixed feelings of  the men and women who fought the war that made America a superpower.\u003c\/p\u003e\"A book by an ex—soldier that deals with the Americans in Itlay and that displays unmistakable talent…Mr. Burns shows the novelist’s specific gift in a brilliant way.\" — Edmund Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Burns has a brilliant facility for reproducing the sights, sounds, color, feel, and smell of the places he has seen. He uses this to startling effect to recapture what many Americans beyond the frontiers of their antiseptic homeland for the first time found in exotic and warped war centers as Casablanca, Fedhala, Algiers, and of course the twisted and diseased Napoli itself.\" — William Hogan, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important novel of our time.\" — William McFee, \u003ci\u003eNew York Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No one will ever forget this book: a story torn from impassioned experience of modern wars in a shattered city of the ancient world. \u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e is unique, unsparing, immediate; inextinguishable.\" — Shirley Hazzard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Burns’s novel…captures the peculiar moral putrefaction military occupation breeds.” —Roy Scranton, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Horne Burns\u003c\/b\u003e (1916-1953) attended Andover and Harvard and then served in military intelligence during World War II. He wrote two more novels after \u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLucifer With a Book\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Cry of Children\u003c\/i\u003e—but both met with a cold critical reception. He drank himself to death in Florence while still in his thirties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Fussell\u003c\/b\u003e (1924–2012) was the author of many books on war and twentieth-century culture, including \u003ci\u003eThe Great War and Modern Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award. His memoir \u003ci\u003eDoing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the time he spent fighting with the 103rd infantry division in World War II.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303570428133,"sku":"NP9781590170809","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590170809.jpg?v=1767739462","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-gallery-isbn-9781590170809","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}